American Men Un-manageably Proud(?)
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
I often feel, that generally speaking, American men are basically un-manageable, due to their pride.
Some American men are proud of being tall. Some are proud of their muscles. Some are proud of the size of their penis. Some are proud of the fact that they have the same last name as a pro athlete. Some are proud that they have the same last name as a Playboy playmate.
Some are proud that they live in a nation that is "the most powerful nation on earth" and that can wipe other countries off the map in minutes. Although it is simply an accident of birth that they were born as Americans and others were born say in India, and although obviously a man is not less of a man than an American simply because of the accident that he happened to be born in say a small nation like Norway, such men feel superior to others simply because they happened to be born into the militarily "omnipotent" US of A.
As a result of their pride, they will not obey or serve or protect ethical and intelligent leaders; and their lukewarm movements in the direction of such obedience and service are half-hearted.
Since so many of them are so proud, they never get energetically active by way of service to God or Country or Race or Religion or Humanity if such service is not rewarded by a paycheck-carrot. They only get energetically active, when there is the carrot of a paycheck waiting as a reward for their actions. Due to their pride, when such a paycheck-carrot is waiting for them, they move like automotons, robots, there is nothing they will not do to get the paycheck-carrot, the possibility of refusing to do something they are ordered to do as a result of which they will not receive their paycheck-carrot does not even enter their minds. The paycheck is a reward for THEM, and pride is about putting the self on a pedestal.
Many American men seem to be addicted to pride, the way people get addicted to alcohol or heroin or nicotine. They seem to feel uncomfortable, disoriented, lost, when the spirit of hubris temporarily leaves them.
Professional athletes, are in a unique situation, a situation different from the situation the general public finds itself in. The fact they are pro athletes does not mean in and of itself mean that they have any special gift in terms of ethics or wisdom. Still, plenty of American men worship pro athletes, as if pro athletes, as incarnations of God, are something to be imitated. They worship the pro athletes because the pro athletes to an exaggerated extent, possess some characteristic they are proud of, such as a level of physical strength or height that exceeds the strength and height found amongst most of the world's males. This worship of pro athletes, re-inforces conduct of the proud type, such as lackadaisicality in public service.
Last night I had a dream, in which me and about fifty other people were in this large room with high ceilings, that looked like the main room at Harvard's Widener Library. It was night-time, the room was lit by slightly yellowish indoor lighting, the room contained high bookshelves on the walls filled with crimson colored books, light brown colored globes representing planet earth, and brown wooden tables. In this dream the American people had appointed me to be their leader; yet still we studied side by side in this library room as if we were all equals. My job as their leader was to tell all these representatives of special interests that came to me asking for favors, to bug off. A short thin white guy with black hair and a shaved down beard, who was wearing mostly white pants and a short sleeved shirt that was mostly white, came to me asking me for favors for his special interest. I told him no. And I was thinking, these people appoint me their leader, they expect to tell all these special interests to bug off, and yet they fail to provide me with the physical security that would protect me from being assassinated or kidnapped!
American men who think that there is something Christian or virtuous about pride need to be sent back to Sunday School, as the following scriptures attest:
(Lev 26:19) And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
(1Sa 17:28) And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
(2Ch 32:26) Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
(Job 33:17) That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
(Job 35:12) There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
(Job 41:15) His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
(Job 41:34) He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
(Psa 10:2) The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
(Psa 10:4) The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
(Psa 31:20) Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
(Psa 36:11) Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
(Psa 59:12) For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
(Psa 73:6) Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
(Pro 8:13) The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
(Pro 11:2) When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
(Pro 13:10) Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
(Pro 14:3) In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
(Pro 16:18) Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
(Pro 29:23) A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
(Isa 9:9) And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
(Isa 16:6) We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
(Isa 23:9) The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
(Isa 25:11) And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
(Isa 28:1) Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
(Isa 28:3) The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
(Jer 13:9) Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
(Jer 13:17) But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
(Jer 48:29) We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
(Jer 49:16) Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
(Eze 7:10) Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
(Eze 16:49) Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
(Eze 16:56) For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
(Eze 30:6) Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
(Dan 4:37) Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
(Dan 5:20) But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
(Hos 5:5) And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
(Hos 7:10) And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
(Oba 1:3) The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
(Zep 2:10) This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
(Zep 3:11) In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
(Zec 9:6) And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
(Zec 10:11) And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away.
(Zec 11:3) There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
(Mar 7:22) Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
(1Ti 3:6) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
(1Jo 2:16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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(Job 9:13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
(Job 26:12) He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
(Job 38:11) And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
(Job 40:11) Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
(Job 40:12) Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
(Psa 12:3) The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
(Psa 31:23) O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
(Psa 40:4) Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
(Psa 86:14) O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
(Psa 94:2) Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
(Psa 101:5) Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
(Psa 119:21) Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
(Psa 119:51) The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
(Psa 119:69) The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
(Psa 119:78) Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
(Psa 119:85) The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
(Psa 119:122) Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
(Psa 123:4) Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
(Psa 124:5) Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
(Psa 138:6) Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
(Psa 140:5) The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
(Pro 6:17) A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
(Pro 15:25) The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
(Pro 16:5) Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
(Pro 16:19) Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
(Pro 21:4) A high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
(Pro 21:24) Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
(Pro 28:25) He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
(Ecc 7:8) Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
(Isa 2:12) For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
(Isa 13:11) And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
(Isa 16:6) We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
(Jer 13:15) Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
(Jer 43:2) Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
(Jer 48:29) We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
(Jer 50:29) Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
(Jer 50:31) Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
(Jer 50:32) And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
(Hab 2:5) Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
(Mal 3:15) And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
(Mal 4:1) For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
(Luk 1:51) He hath showed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
(Rom 1:30) Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
(1Ti 6:4) He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings.
(2Ti 3:2) For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
(Jam 4:6) But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
(1Pe 5:5) Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
I often feel, that generally speaking, American men are basically un-manageable, due to their pride.
Some American men are proud of being tall. Some are proud of their muscles. Some are proud of the size of their penis. Some are proud of the fact that they have the same last name as a pro athlete. Some are proud that they have the same last name as a Playboy playmate.
Some are proud that they live in a nation that is "the most powerful nation on earth" and that can wipe other countries off the map in minutes. Although it is simply an accident of birth that they were born as Americans and others were born say in India, and although obviously a man is not less of a man than an American simply because of the accident that he happened to be born in say a small nation like Norway, such men feel superior to others simply because they happened to be born into the militarily "omnipotent" US of A.
As a result of their pride, they will not obey or serve or protect ethical and intelligent leaders; and their lukewarm movements in the direction of such obedience and service are half-hearted.
Since so many of them are so proud, they never get energetically active by way of service to God or Country or Race or Religion or Humanity if such service is not rewarded by a paycheck-carrot. They only get energetically active, when there is the carrot of a paycheck waiting as a reward for their actions. Due to their pride, when such a paycheck-carrot is waiting for them, they move like automotons, robots, there is nothing they will not do to get the paycheck-carrot, the possibility of refusing to do something they are ordered to do as a result of which they will not receive their paycheck-carrot does not even enter their minds. The paycheck is a reward for THEM, and pride is about putting the self on a pedestal.
Many American men seem to be addicted to pride, the way people get addicted to alcohol or heroin or nicotine. They seem to feel uncomfortable, disoriented, lost, when the spirit of hubris temporarily leaves them.
Professional athletes, are in a unique situation, a situation different from the situation the general public finds itself in. The fact they are pro athletes does not mean in and of itself mean that they have any special gift in terms of ethics or wisdom. Still, plenty of American men worship pro athletes, as if pro athletes, as incarnations of God, are something to be imitated. They worship the pro athletes because the pro athletes to an exaggerated extent, possess some characteristic they are proud of, such as a level of physical strength or height that exceeds the strength and height found amongst most of the world's males. This worship of pro athletes, re-inforces conduct of the proud type, such as lackadaisicality in public service.
Last night I had a dream, in which me and about fifty other people were in this large room with high ceilings, that looked like the main room at Harvard's Widener Library. It was night-time, the room was lit by slightly yellowish indoor lighting, the room contained high bookshelves on the walls filled with crimson colored books, light brown colored globes representing planet earth, and brown wooden tables. In this dream the American people had appointed me to be their leader; yet still we studied side by side in this library room as if we were all equals. My job as their leader was to tell all these representatives of special interests that came to me asking for favors, to bug off. A short thin white guy with black hair and a shaved down beard, who was wearing mostly white pants and a short sleeved shirt that was mostly white, came to me asking me for favors for his special interest. I told him no. And I was thinking, these people appoint me their leader, they expect to tell all these special interests to bug off, and yet they fail to provide me with the physical security that would protect me from being assassinated or kidnapped!
American men who think that there is something Christian or virtuous about pride need to be sent back to Sunday School, as the following scriptures attest:
(Lev 26:19) And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
(1Sa 17:28) And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
(2Ch 32:26) Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
(Job 33:17) That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
(Job 35:12) There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
(Job 41:15) His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
(Job 41:34) He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
(Psa 10:2) The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
(Psa 10:4) The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
(Psa 31:20) Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
(Psa 36:11) Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
(Psa 59:12) For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
(Psa 73:6) Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
(Pro 8:13) The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
(Pro 11:2) When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
(Pro 13:10) Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
(Pro 14:3) In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
(Pro 16:18) Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
(Pro 29:23) A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
(Isa 9:9) And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
(Isa 16:6) We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
(Isa 23:9) The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
(Isa 25:11) And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
(Isa 28:1) Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
(Isa 28:3) The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
(Jer 13:9) Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
(Jer 13:17) But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
(Jer 48:29) We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
(Jer 49:16) Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
(Eze 7:10) Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
(Eze 16:49) Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
(Eze 16:56) For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
(Eze 30:6) Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
(Dan 4:37) Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
(Dan 5:20) But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
(Hos 5:5) And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
(Hos 7:10) And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
(Oba 1:3) The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
(Zep 2:10) This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
(Zep 3:11) In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
(Zec 9:6) And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
(Zec 10:11) And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away.
(Zec 11:3) There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
(Mar 7:22) Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
(1Ti 3:6) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
(1Jo 2:16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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(Job 9:13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
(Job 26:12) He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
(Job 38:11) And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
(Job 40:11) Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
(Job 40:12) Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
(Psa 12:3) The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
(Psa 31:23) O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
(Psa 40:4) Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
(Psa 86:14) O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
(Psa 94:2) Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
(Psa 101:5) Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
(Psa 119:21) Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
(Psa 119:51) The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
(Psa 119:69) The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
(Psa 119:78) Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
(Psa 119:85) The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
(Psa 119:122) Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
(Psa 123:4) Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
(Psa 124:5) Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
(Psa 138:6) Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
(Psa 140:5) The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
(Pro 6:17) A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
(Pro 15:25) The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
(Pro 16:5) Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
(Pro 16:19) Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
(Pro 21:4) A high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
(Pro 21:24) Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
(Pro 28:25) He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
(Ecc 7:8) Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
(Isa 2:12) For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
(Isa 13:11) And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
(Isa 16:6) We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
(Jer 13:15) Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
(Jer 43:2) Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
(Jer 48:29) We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
(Jer 50:29) Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
(Jer 50:31) Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
(Jer 50:32) And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
(Hab 2:5) Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
(Mal 3:15) And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
(Mal 4:1) For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
(Luk 1:51) He hath showed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
(Rom 1:30) Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
(1Ti 6:4) He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings.
(2Ti 3:2) For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
(Jam 4:6) But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
(1Pe 5:5) Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
posted by David Virgil at 6:54 AM
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